To:S. P. SEREDA AND N. P. BRYUKHANOV[1]

Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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FromMosalsk Uyezd, Kaluga Gubernia.

1)Atfirst requisition is said to have been in live cattle—
this caused extreme dissatisfaction among the peasants. It
was even said that they “were being robbed”.

Later(in X. 1920) the requisition is said to have been
switched from live cattle to meat (.13 pounds per cow, 26
pounds per pig, 7 pounds per sheep, etc.). The peasants
were highly satisfied with this change.

Therequisition is now said to be again in live cattle:
there is again dissatisfaction and bitterness among the
peasants.

2)Theformer Baryatinsky estate (later owned by a
German, something like Schalart) in Silkovo Volost, probably
more than 1,000 dessiatines.

Thishas been taken over for a state farm, the land is
lying waste, millions are said to be taken from the treasury,
no more than 5 dessiatines ploughed up in 1920. Ten (out of
about 100) horses and 30–40 (out of 200) cows remain. No
one is working hard. The furniture has been pilfered, etc.

Thepeasants in the neighbourhood arevery muchin need
of land and are highly disgruntled at not being given
either meadow or land.

(NikolaiSemyonovich Bodyakov,SilkovoVolost, the
village ofFilipkovo, Mosalsk Uyezd, Kaluga Gubernia.)

Irequest Comrades Bryukhanov and Sereda to order a
report and to let me have it, withintwodays, at the latest.

Canthese needs be met? Or is there some
obstacle?[2]

[1]Writtenby Lenin after a talk on surplus-food requisition with    

N. S. Bodyakov, a delegate of the peasants of Mosalsk Uyezd,      

Kaluga Gubernia, on November 16, 1920.

p. 52

[2]Leningot the requested report on November 18, 1920.